1826.] StaJxxrcUhire, Lancashire, Nottingham, Leicester, S^c. 685 



although he had Uvea In the parish twenty-five 

 years, yet he had never seen his reverence's face but 

 once in a quarter of a century V 



flowers were beautifully formed, and emitted the 

 mcBt fragrant perfume. It Is believed to be the first 

 instance of this plant's flowering in that city. 



Seventeen stone, ten pounds, of grapes, very fine 

 ones, and quite ripe, were gathered in October, 

 from a vine growing in front of a cottage, in the 

 open air, at Helmsley. Grapes had never ripened 

 but once before on this vine within memory. 



On the luth Nov., there was a grand concert in 

 the Festival Concert Room, York, at which illO of 

 the first persons in the city and neighbourhood were 

 present. It was under the patronage of the Arch- 

 bishop, for the benefit of the distressed manu- 

 facturers. 



A steara-boat boiler exploded in the Humber, on 

 the 7th November. Six persons were killed, and 

 twenty wounded. The accident appears to have 

 been owing to the badness of the boiler. 



Marnt'd.] At Alderley, Cheshire, Captain W. E. 

 Parry, R. U. to Isabella Louisa, fourth daughter of 

 Sir John Thomas Stanley, BarL, of Alderley.— At 

 Thirsk, Rev. T. Cautley to Miss M. A. P. Hensou— 

 At York, Rev. Jas. Dallin to Mrs. Jenkinson— At 

 Thonihill, Thomas EUerby, esq., to Miss Thorn- 

 hill— At Hooby, Rev. G. Gilderdale to Miss Smith— 

 At Scarborough, W. W. Wilkinson, esq. to Miss M. 

 Thornton. 



DiciL'] At Leeds, Charlotte, youngest daughter 

 of Jas. Rhodes, esq — At York, Mrs. Horncastle, 

 relict of Richard Horncastle, esq. 



STAFFOUDSHIRE AND SALOP. 



A very handsome vase, weighing 550 ounces, has 

 been presented by the tenantry of the Earl of Bridge- 

 water, and other inhabitants of EUesmere and 

 neighbourhood, to Robert Clark, esq., as a mark of 

 their esteem for his anxiety and fatherly aft'ection 

 towards them for twenty years, during his manage- 

 ment of the noble Lord's estates. Mr. Clark in 

 returning thanks said, that when the late Earl of 

 Brirtgewater entrusted him with the management of 

 his estates, his instructions were, " let the tenantry 

 be made comfortable and happy, and, wherever it is 

 practicable, let my property be made subservient to 

 the amusement of the country gentlemen !" 



At the Stafford Sessions, one of the magistrates 

 (Sir Oswald Moseley) remarked, that the number 

 of i)risoners for trial was greater than at any former 

 period — tliere were three hundred in the county 

 goal !M 



nied.'] At RoUeston'Hall, Miss S. E. G. Every, 

 sister of Sir Hemy Every, Bart., of Egginton, 

 Derby. 



LAKCASHIRE. 



Oct. 26, a numerous meeting of the working 

 cla&ses and others was held at Manchester, for the 

 jmri'ose of petitioning Parliament on the repeal of 

 the Com- Laws, the reduction of taxation, the enor- 

 mous sums bestowed on the dignitaries of the Esta- 

 tablished ChurcJi, and the reform of representation 

 in the Commons ; when several resolutions were 

 passe<l, and petitions framed from them unanimously 

 ordered to !« presented to the houses of Lords and 

 Commons— one by Lord King, and the other by Mr. 

 Hume. — The sentence of death passed at the last 

 I^aucathirc assizes upon the rioters has been com- 

 muted for imprisonment and transportation. 



.\ meeting of the inluibitants of Liverpool has 

 taken place In the Town-IIall, for the j)urpo»e of 

 presenting jjetitlons to the Legislature on the sub- 

 ject of the Corn-Laws; when several resolutions 

 ticrc p.Tsscd unanimously. Indicating the necessity 

 dia modiflcntlon of the Corn-L.iWH. All the com- 

 mercial gentlemen of the town attended, and Col. 

 Williams, in the course of his speech, said: "he 

 WAS a cultivator of com, and had to give one-tenth 

 of his pfO(iuc« to the Rector of ChlldwuU, and that, 



NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AMD LINCOLNSHIRE. 



At the 44th anniversary meeting of the General 

 Hospital, Nottingham, held Oct. 18, the contribu- 

 tions received at the church door of St. Mary's for 

 admission, amounted to £320. lite. A selection of 

 sacred music, with full chorusses, was performed 

 during the service. — A petition of the inhabitants of 

 Nottingham to the House of Commons for the total 

 abolition of the Corn-Laws and excessive taxation, 

 has been agreed to, and about lO.IKW signatures have 

 been attached to it, at the Town-Hall. Similar 

 petitions have passed at Radford, Basford, Nyson 

 Green, and Beeston.— The Cori>oration of Not- 

 tingham are improving their extensive market- 

 place — the unemployed poor are to do the labour, 

 and the parish is to receive 4d. per yard for the 

 same. 



Died.'] At Newark, Rev. W. Rastall, li. 



LEICESTERSHIRE. 

 Nov. 4, 1826.— The vicar of a parish not twelve 

 miles from this town, who within the last seven 

 years was in the enjojTnent of a living which pro- 

 duced him £600 or £700 a year, was observed, a 

 few days ago, breaking stones by the road side, in a 

 parish not far from Boston, Lincolnshire. The 

 individual who saw him, was a respectable dissenting 

 minister of the Baptist denomination, who resides 

 in a neighbouring parisli to that in which the vicar 

 formerly lived. 'Scarcely crediting what his eyes 

 beheld as he passed along the road, he stopped his 

 horse and. entered into conversation with him. The 

 appearance of the aged and unfortunate divine was 

 truly wretched, and he was much affected at being 

 discovered in his forlorn situation, but said that he 

 hoped again to see better days, as in the course of 

 five or six years the pecuniary engagements into 

 which he had entered would be satisfied, and that 

 then he should return to the vicarage where he had 

 been resident for so many years. The dissenting minis- 

 ter, commiserating his situation, gave him 5s., 

 promising, on his return home, to make , his case 

 known to the clergy of the neighbourhood. The 

 wife of the vicar had some time before applied for 

 relief from the parish of which her husband was 

 vicar, but did not obtain any, as he had subsequently 

 acquired a settlement elsewhere. — Leicester Chronicle. 



WARWICKSHIRE. 

 At the last quarter Sessions, it appears by the goal 

 calendar, that no less than una hundred and twenty 

 prisoners were for trial ; ninety of whom were com- 

 mitted by the magistrates of Birmingham. Surely 

 it is high time that something were done to render 

 speedier the administration of our criminal laws — 

 would it not be more creditable to us, as a nation 

 famed for its jurisprudence, to remedy the abuses in 

 the interior of our country, and to preve!it crime, 

 before we presume to make the nations abroad bet- 

 ter ? — " look at home," has long been an adage 

 among the wise and prudent, and why should Eng- 

 land forget it ? — Four youths at Warwick were fined 

 C(/. each damages, and li*. costs, for trespassing and 

 gathering the rhesnuts in the pleasure grounds ad- 

 joining the Castle, <luring divine service on Sunday. 

 /)i«/.] At Coventry, Mrs. Butterworth, Tn, 

 relict of the late Alderman Butterworth— .M Man- 

 cctter-House, W. Owen, esq, 72. 



WOltCESTERSUIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE. 



It appears by the Worcester County Treasurer's 



abetract account of receipts and expenditiue, fiom 



